Phil Scowcroft's Garlands
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/garlands/index.htm

Garlands is the name Phil gives to his collection of articles on British
Light Music.  There have been 30 of these on Musicweb and have proved a
very popular section of the site.

Phil has now come out of hiding and I have added a photograph and a short
biography of this exceedingly active person!  True to form he has not been
resting on his laurels but has gone on to write yet more Garlands and I
have just added another SIXTY to the site.

The first 30 were indexed by composer but this has become too big a job.
At the present you are able to reach each garland by a Garland number link
but it is anticipated that you would use the site search engines to find
any composer of interests.  Rob Barnett is to compile a catalogue of which
composers appear in which Garlands which will assist you.

The sixty new Garlands are extremely wide-ranging. There are the usual
Victorian ballad and Dance music composers aplenty.  Phil had obviously
decided at number 50 that he had completed the job as 51 is a supplement,
52 an epilogue, 53 and 54 addenda - and then he just carried on as before
with a Diamond instalment at number 60:  Dance Bands music, Film Music,
TV music, Church organists, those you and I might think of as Classical
composers, composers for wind and brass band, for the piano, First World
and Second World war ....

As Phil would say - and does many times - reports of the death of British
Light Music are greatly exaggerated.

You won't have long to read these 90 because more are on their way.

Len Mullenger
Webmaster for Musicweb (UK)
www.musicweb.uk.net